Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 103

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text pp. (8),401,(14). Browned and stained. Contemporary vellum. Sm. 4to Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414

Zürich: Joh. Jacob Bodmer 1655

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

Hottinger (1620-67), a Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis. (See EJ VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in the Sepher HaChinuch